Border Wars

Cameras follow the action along Arizona's Sonoran Desert, one of the busiest border crossings in the country, as officers and agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection fight terrorism, apprehend drug smugglers and intercept people entering the United States illegally. The series also embeds with Customs and Border Protection, and with local law enforcement, as units patrol near and on the border in South Texas.

Bill Graves

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Smugglers bury drugs inside the toxic content of tanker trucks.

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Border Patrol rookies learn the ropes from veterans on the front lines.

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The flow of illegal immigrants and drugs; Border Patrol's campaign for new methods to avoid detection.

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El Paso officers detain a father and son suspected of smuggling drugs.

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